Caesar's Column

A man sleeps for two centuries and wakes as the wealthiest person alive, in a London of vast towers where the poor labour for a ruling council. Wells builds one of the earliest visions of the corporate megacity.

H. G. Wells

Wells describes atomic bombs three decades before they existed, then follows the collapse and rebuilding of world order after they are used. A novel about technology outrunning the politics meant to control it.

H. G. Wells

Two travellers reach the Moon and find the Selenites, a society where every individual is physically shaped from birth to fit a single job. The satire of a perfectly specialised civilisation outlasts the adventure.

H. G. Wells